if in the course of creating a Friendly AI you need to make any value judgment that correlates significantly along party lines, you're almost certainly Doing It Wrong.

This is exactly what I thought when I saw the original post, but did not then have time to write.

I think saying that the set of people interested in entertaining the question would lean libertarian, is evidence that this does indeed break down on party lines as I suggested. I find it bizarre to suppose that Republicans or Democrats interested in the Singularity would want to build a singleton without even asking whether that was the right thing to do. But I lean Libertarian.

You may be right wrt. the Doing It Wrong observation. But it's difficult to say anything meaningful about making friendly AI if we dismiss approaches that are Doing It Wrong, because the set of Doing It Right is miniscule or empty.

In a case like that, where you can't find the right way, it may be valuable to discuss approaches even if they are known to be wrong, in the hope that the analysis generalizes to approaches that are correct?